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Why Police Cannot Always Arrest: Reasonable Grounds Explained
Featured ArticleCriminal Investigation · Nov 5, 2026

Why Police Cannot Always Arrest: Reasonable Grounds Explained

They call them split-second decisions for a reason. Whenever a serious crime is reported and no one is arrested straight away, the same question follows. The police were right there. They spoke to people. So why did nobody get arrested? The answer is a legal standard called reasonable grounds, and it is the most misunderstood threshold in Canadian policing. I had to meet it myself before I could put my hand on anyone, and I spent twenty years teaching it to college law enforcement students. H

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8 min read5 November, 2026

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